World Open Snooker prize money 2024: How much is Ronnie O’Sullivan and Judd Trump battling for?

WORLD OPEN snooker is finally BACK – and the prize money is bigger than ever.

Judd Trump defeated Thepchaiya Un-Nooh to lift the prestigious crown in 2019.

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Ronnie O’Sullivan will have his eyes on the huge prize money[/caption]

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Judd Trump won the 2019 title[/caption]

But unfortunately, the Covid-19 pandemic forced organisers to cancel the huge event for the last THREE seasons.

However, snooker fans are delighted to see that some of their biggest icons such as Ronnie O’Sullivan will be playing in China for the return of the World Open tournament.

And as usual, the prize money is a great incentive for players to give it their all.

What is the World Open Snooker 2024 prize money?

The World Open Snooker is one of the richest ranking events of the season and has a total prize pot of £815,000 and the winner banking £170,000.

The breakdown is as follows:

• Winner: £170,000
• Runner-up: £73,000
• Semi-final: £32,500
• Quarter-final: £21,500
• Last 16: £14,000
• Last 32: £9,000
• Last 64: £5,000
• Highest break: £5,000

Where is the World Open Snooker 2024 being played?

The World Open Snooker 2024 will be held at the Yushan Sports Centre in Yushan, China,

But the qualification matches took place earlier this year at the Barnsley Metrodome in January.

It is scheduled to get underway on Monday, March 18, 2024 and runs every day until the final on Sunday, March 24, 2024.

Sessions in the early rounds take place at 6.30am and 11.30am UK time – 2.30pm and 7.30pm local.

What were the qualification results?

Ronnie O’Sullivan beat Alfie Burden to book his spot at the highly-anticipated tournament.

Here are the qualification results below:

• Ronnie O’Sullivan 5-3 Alfie Burden
• Louis Heathcote 5-0 Oliver Lines
• Jak Jones 5-3 Ryan Thomerson
• Noppon Saengkham 5-4 Himanshu Jain
• Robert Milkins 5-2 Barry Pinches
• Hossein Vafaei 5-2 Liam Pullen
• Elliot Slessor 5-2 Reanne Evans
• Sam Craigie 5-0 Ken Doherty
• Shaun Murphy 5-0 Mohamed Ibrahim
• Stuart Carrington 5-4 Gary Wilson
• Jackson Page 5-3 Liam Graham
• Lyu Haotian 5-2 Ashley Carty
• Sean O’Sullivan 5-1 Xiao Guodong
• Si Jiahui 5-1 Stan Moody
• Ali Carter 5-1 Ahmed Aly Elsayed
• Kyren Wilson 5-0 Jimmy White
• Daniel Wells 5-1 Liam Highfield
• Michael White 5-2 Haydon Pinhey
• Barry Hawkins 5-3 Steven Hallworth